Okay, this anger starts back on Saturday morning. It was 75F (~24C), driving my car home when BOOM the sky starts dropping golf ball sized hail all over the place. Pulled over underneath a bridge ... guy in front of me lost his wiper blades. When it's all over, the road is covered with ice balls. Went from a summer looking day to winter in five minutes.

So it continues to warm up, and it all melts away. I ride my motorcycle and all is good.

Then Sunday it downpours for 10 hours and floods my basement.

And now it's 30F (~-1C) and it's SNOWING. It's a freaking snow storm in the middle of April.

It's been nice here, but cool today and hail pellets yesterday. The weather shaman is prophesying snow tomorrow, but says all will return to bliss on Thursday.

We've had snow in April. I remember a storm later but can't find a link. The saying here is "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute.". And Mark Twain said "Everybody talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.".

Crap, I totally forgot about the eclipse. I was going to try and take a photo too. Crud.

Not to be snooty, but unless you have a nice lens and a camera with a full manual mode, you probably wouldn't have gotten anything very good.

Here's the video I made:

It's not some snooty camera. just a Nikon D5200. I imagine I have the wrong lenses to make a really decent shot, but I do have decent control over the shutter and aperture.

I didn't expect to get a stellar (swidt?) shot. But something passable anyhow.

At this point you do need a better camera .

I wake up, and there's snow. Didn't notice any hail, but otherwise, I can mirror what Matthew said, just at a time shift.

ahaha. yeah, I imagine you'd get next to nothing from a cellphone.

I'm a total photography noob, so I imagine I'd have gotten maybe one or two usable shots. nothing close to a video

I feel your pain, as I was once the victim of an improperly installed water pump. Was the important stuff elevated? You might be surprised at how durable paper can be. In my case, drying completely drenched documents in the sun and pressing them afterwards saved a lot of time that would have otherwise been spent replacing them.

It probably doesn't take a psychic to guess the online video that immediately comes to mind every time I hear this term.

AFAIK that charge is trumped up. It's legal to film public employees afaik. Scare tactic. Trying to dissuade people from doing things that maybe should be done more often by the looks of it.

Depends on jurisdiction. Police will absolutely try to intimidate you away from recording them, but in jurisdictions where it is actually legal they wouldn't take it so far (i.e., arresting and charging the guy) because the consequences could be quite severe.

That said, several US states and probably a few other countries (hopefully no Canadian provinces, but I won't put it past them) did in fact pass laws to make filming police in public illegal (I think even criminal). Of course, there's no good reason for those laws, and they are completely unjust, which just further proves why people need to do it anyway. Obviously the police are corrupt as fuck.

I don't know where they get 16 years from, but even a fine would be unreasonable. Filming in public is harmless, and so is filming e.g., your own traffic stop. The police are just afraid of being held accountable for their actions, which should scare the fuck out of you.

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Amen. For what it's worth, the man in the video ended up coming out on top in the courts. I imagine he was compensated well beyond the price of the original speeding ticket, as well.